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If you're an NSF grantee who receives notice of cancellation per today's announcement, please get in touch here or via Signal mzahneis.09.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

what could your bluesky-con be about that could draw 200 people “darthcon” would have dogs to pet and fried potato dishes to sample

submitted 10 hours ago • 286 comments

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

submitted 13 hours ago • 61 comments

Starting an email with "I hope this finds you well." ✔️Dull ✔️Unoriginal ✔️But do you really hope that? Starting an email with "’There must be some kind of way out of here,’ said The Joker to The Thief.” ✔️Edgy ✔️Invited them on a quest ✔️Clearly identifies the speaker’s and recipient’s roles

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Starting an email with "I hope this finds you well." ✔️Dull ✔️Unoriginal ✔️But do you really hope that? Starting an email with "We're following a road of pain. We're all running away to death." ✔️Edgy ✔️Original ✔️ Directs to one of the best songs ever while showing the collective true mood

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Starting an email with "I hope this finds you well." ✔️Dull ✔️Unoriginal ✔️If you really hoped that, you'd already know Starting an email with "The Shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out. People said his brain was infected by devils." ✔️Edgy ✔️Original ✔️ Accurate

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Starting an email with "I hope this finds you well." ✔️Dull ✔️Unoriginal ✔️But do you really hope that? Starting an email with "you better hope this email never finds me again." ✔️Edgy ✔️Original ✔️ Accurate

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Starting an email with "I hope this finds you well." ✔️Dull ✔️Unoriginal ✔️But do you really hope that? Starting an email with "One of you will betray me." ✔️Edgy ✔️Original ✔️Keeps everyone on their toes

submitted 9 hours ago • 12 comments

So yeah if you’re a political scientist #polisky and your NSF grant was canceled please respond to this post

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

submitted 11 hours ago • 111 comments

Democracy dies in dumb

submitted 13 hours ago • 216 comments

Someone recently described my research personality as "all gas no breaks" and I don't know if I have ever felt so seen

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

I hope it is not lost, in all of the chaos at the federal level, that there are many longstanding, discretionary programs that are on the Administration's chopping block, either directly or through the erosion of agency staff, expertise, and capacity. Programs enacted and reauthorized through...

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Since I'm working all weekend, Good Friday seems an appropriate time to repost it (thanks to @neauxpe.bsky.social for getting me a link from the bad place)

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

The smartest thing Bluesky can do right now. I'll die on the hill that the main appeal of a microblogging service (as opposed to Insta, Vine etc) is getting your news, confirmed and quickly. That Twitter abandoned this makes it a huge lane for Bluesky to drive into.

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments

Far be it from us to ask the @bsky.app devs for anything. We are historically silent on such matters, but it would be rad to get a "government" or "parenting" or "product safety" or "jack pasta" interest(s) in the mix.

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submitted 15 hours ago • 17 comments

Teach a man to fish, and you'll probably get endless followup questions about technique and gear etc. Teach a man to become a fish, and you'll never hear from him again

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

An op-ed writer is not a danger to their community. A court that will lock someone up for an op-ed is a danger to every community.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

👏🏻less awareness please👏🏻

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Summoning the productivity goddesses with the "many liquids" spell 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

I had to tell three people in the last week that I don't have time for meetings with no purpose! What is going on??

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

I think a lot abt how marginalized people are expected to be perfect just to be treated w/ basic dignity, just to access legal protection. But democracy can’t mean rights for the respectable few. It has to mean fair and just treatment even for those seen as least deserving. That’s the real test.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

submitted 22 hours ago • 89 comments

My embroidery, The River Maiden for today. Are you ready to set sail and dream? 😉🪡🌿🌀 *all completely freehand stitched in April 2021. #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

It’s unironically Very Good that every pro-democracy political actor from Angela Davis to David Brooks agrees we need an unprecedented popular front that mobilizes civil resistance to stop the march of tyranny and restore popular rule to our government. Now, we just have to organize it.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Truly a pleasure to talk about my book Democracy is Awkwerd and get into the challenges and potential of grassroots organizing in this moment on New Books in Public Policy podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Did one of those action figure things

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments